Chamlet vs Camlet - What's the difference?
chamlet | camlet |
A fine fabric made from wool (originally camel, but later goat) and silk.
A garment made from such a fabric.
As nouns the difference between chamlet and camlet
is that chamlet is while camlet is a fine fabric made from wool (originally camel, but later goat) and silk.camlet
English
Noun
- July 1, 1660' ''This morning came home my fine '''Camlett cloak, with gold buttons, and a silk suit, which cost me much money, and I pray God to make me able to pay for it.'' — Samuel Pepys, ''
- 1844' ''With this announcement he hurried away to the outer door of the Blue Dragon, and almost immediately returned with a companion shorter than himself, who was wrapped in an old blue '''camlet cloak with a lining of faded scarlet.'' — Charles Dickens, ''Martin Chuzzlewit ,
- 1893' ''She was richly clad in a bodice of gold-coloured '''camlet and a skirt of gray silk trimmed with gold and silver lace.'' — Arthur Conan Doyle, ''The Refugees , .